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1Aug2016

Monday smile – Humour in the courtroom

Posted in Monday smiles by WordstoDeeds

court benchToday’s post is a thoughtful Monday smile – I wanted to share with you a paper entitled “Banter from the Bench: The Use of Humour in the Exercise of Judicial Functions” by Jack Oakley from Clifford Chance, and Brian Opeskin from Macquarie Law School, Australia.

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W2D2023 Conference

The third WordstoDeeds conference “Legal Translation and Risk” took place on Saturday 28 to Sunday 29 January 2023. It was a really great event!

Please share news of the conference in any way you can – not just to legal translators but to lawyers and anyone with a stake in diligently translated legal documents.

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